Lost to Chris Weidman (TKO), UFC 168 Lost to Chris Weidman (KO), UFC 162 Among the message-board ranks, Anderson Silva's poor takedown defense is glaring. Critics cite it often in any conversation about the best fighters ... MMA-style muay thai in …

In honor of the release of The Dark Knight ... fighting style. As Batman tended to face a number of foes at once, this kind of defense was important - even small blows will accumulate when landed with too much frequency, so a style like Muay Thai that ...

Bloody Elbow Judo Chop: Randy Couture Uses the Low Single Leg Take Down to Drop James Toney at UFC 118

It's a tribute to his disciplined regimen and life style and state of ... MMA -- Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, boxing, Muay Thai, Judo -- I've found wrestling to be the most subtle and nuanced, but the more I learn about the techniques involved, the more I can ...

When Ronda Rousey is training for a fight ... She also started learning the basics of boxing, and how to throw knee and elbow strikes using techniques borrowed from a Thai discipline called muay thai. Because her judo skills were so imposing, she didn ...

The New Yorker •
3 years ago

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/07/28/mean-girl

UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs. dos Anjos staff picks and predictions

See who the Bloody Elbow staff is picking for each fight from tomorrow ... Kyle McLachlan: Pyle is tough as old boots, and has honed his Muay Thai in recent years, but Mein has really good boxing and is a similarly well-rounded veteran.

Issei Tamura Rafael Assuncao is a 29-year-old ... in the Thai Clinch and can throw dangerous elbows and knees from that position, that may be extremely important for this bout as scoring trips from the clinch is one of dos Anjos’ favorite techniques.

While my primary style has been Tae Kwon Do ... but a bad habit yours to train them in Muay Thai? Master Toddy: It’s harder than someone that has never done it before, but I was doing Muay Thai from 4 years old until I was 12 and then turned to Tae ...

Remembering that a double attack—rather than the two handed blows you see in traditional martial arts—is two techniques which play off of ... Showing some of his traditional Muay Thai chops, Dos Anjos repeatedly went to a long guard (or in boxing ...

fightland.vice.com •
2 years ago

http://fightland.vice.com/blog/how-rafael-dos-anjos-killed-the-king

Hollywood's New Kick

From Bollywood kung fu in India to silat in Indonesia, a country-by-country look at martial-arts techniques and the movies they inspired ... Ryan Gosling has been training in Muay Thai to star in "Only God Forgives," about an exile in Bangkok who takes ...